Voice fans: I know it’s a tad early in the game, but is season 5 shaping up to be the most interesting season of the highly rated reality competition yet?
After the reveal of last week’s top 12,
it’s apparent that this season is already breaking two important
trends. One, with only four female singers remaining, is it safe to say
we can expect The Voice to be a male one? There hasn’t been a
male winner since season 1′s Javier Colon and season 2′s Jermaine Paul.
Factors of probability aside, has there ever been a season with male
singers of this caliber of talent? Week to week, I find myself scurrying
from Matthew Schuler’s indie-rock power-ballad camp to favoring James
Wolpert’s versatile vibrato, to even rooting for clutch player Will
Champlin, who many times seemed a goner without a coach’s save. Now I’d
wouldn’t be so careless to rule out Tessanne — who’s been a favorite
this entire season — but it’s not going to be easy for the powerhouse
diva to steamroll past these guys. This talent pool runs deep.
Secondly, in addition, to the dearth of ladies in the competition,
there’s also a noticeable lack of a female country singer. As my
colleague Samantha Highfill wrote in her analysis of season 4′s artists, The Voice
looked like it was on the the fast track to becoming a single-genre
show with the purpose of exclusively catapulting country singers. While
there’s nothing wrong with discovering another country star, this
departure can only signal good things for Voice viewers. It
will force Blake to rejigger his coaching sensibilities, give more
screen time to idiosyncratic voices, and make it more fun to watch
without the looming threat of winner déjà vu.
cc : sumber
Nov 12, 2013
